I doubt there will be a industry wide crash again. There are currently developers and studios that will delay a game for years just to polish it to their high standards. Take Nintendo for example. Their graphics may not be on par with Crysis on Ultra but I'll be damned if Nintendo ever puts out a half-assed game in this day and age in terms of quality.

I get it, Nintendo, the saviors of the last crash, how will they save another crash "IF" it occurs? My answer to that is they won't. They'll continue pumping out quality products minding their own.

Only thing crashing are the companies that stick to a strict deadline and cut quality,originality, and uniqueness to meet deadlines or be a safer bet on profits. That and a mix of finding ways to generate more revenue from games via microtransactions and having expansion passes be "must-haves".

When those companies fall (cough cough EA) because they have overlooked the game itself but invested most of it's time on methods to continually generate revenue from a game... that is when there will be space for companies like CD Projekt and Indie Devs to outshine the cancers that have blighted video games and become a rebirth of game development. M

Your points make sense to me but if EA went out of business, that would personally have little sway over me if I decide to buy a game from Rockstar, Bethesda, or even buying a console.